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Potatoes Agriculture United States Department of Potatoes Agriculture National 2019 Summary Agricultural Statistics Service September 2020 ISSN: 1949-1514 Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Narrative ................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Potato Utilization – Program States: 2017-2019 ..................................................................................................................... 6 Potato Disposition - United States Chart ................................................................................................................................ 6 Potato Area Planted and Harvested, Yield, and Production – States and United States: 2017-2019 ...................................... 7 Potato Production, Seed Use, Farm Disposition, Price, and Value – States and United States: 2017 Crop ........................... 9 Potato Production, Seed Use, Farm Disposition, Price, and Value – States and United States: 2018 Crop ......................... 10 Potato Production, Seed Use, Farm Disposition, Price, and Value – States and United States: 2019 Crop ......................... 11 Potato Production and Value - United States Chart .............................................................................................................. 13 Potato Production by State - Chart ........................................................................................................................................ 13 Processing – United States: 2017-2019 ................................................................................................................................ 14 Number of Potato Chip and Shoestring Plants and Quantity Used – Areas and United States: 2017-2019 ......................... 14 Quantity of Potatoes Used for Processing – 8 States: 2017-2020 ......................................................................................... 15 Accumulated Potato Shrinkage and Loss – 13 Fall Storage States: 2017-2019 ................................................................... 16 Accumulated Potato Shrinkage and Loss – 13 States: 2019-2020 ........................................................................................ 16 Potato Stocks Held by Growers, Local Dealers, and Processors – 13 Fall States: 2017-2019 ............................................. 17 Potato Stocks Held by Growers, Local Dealers, and Processors – 13 States: 2019-2020 .................................................... 18 Potato Percent of Acreage Planted by Type of Potato – Selected States and United States: 2017-2019 .............................. 19 Potato Acres Planted for Certified Seed – Selected States and United States: 2017-2019 ................................................... 19 Potato Area Planted and Harvested, Yield, and Production – Alaska: 2017-2019 ............................................................... 20 Potato Seed Use, Farm Disposition, Price, and Value – Alaska: 2017-2019 ........................................................................ 20 Potato Marketing Year Average Price Received – States and United States: 2017-2019 .................................................... 21 Statistical Methodology ........................................................................................................................................................ 22 Information Contacts ............................................................................................................................................................ 23 Potatoes 2019 Summary (September 2020) 3 USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service Introduction This publication presents potato estimates of acreage, yield per acre, production, farm disposition, season average price, value, and utilization of sales including processing for the 2019 season with historic comparisons. Also included are first of the month potato stocks (December through June) for the 13 potato producing States. Percent of acreage planted by type, and certified seed acres are also included for selected States. These estimates are based on information furnished by producers, processors, and cooperating State or Federal Agencies. The various sources include: Market News Service rail and truck shipments, Federal-State inspections, and miscellaneous data available through marketing programs. Price estimates represent average returns to growers for all uses and for all methods of sale. These prices are applied to total production to compute value of production, and to the quantity sold to compute value of sales. Some unsold potatoes contribute to the value of production, including farm use for seed, feed, home use, and loss. The United States season average price is obtained by weighting State prices by quantities sold. Prior to the 2019 season, potato production, utilization, and value of sales in each State have been classified by season according to the period when the largest supplies are harvested. Beginning in 2019, seasonal estimates have been discontinued. The three seasons are as follows: Season Usual Time of Harvest Spring January through June Summer July to mid-September Fall August through November A crop year is associated with the calendar year in which harvest is accomplished. Seasons are not fixed dates but are approximations because of overlapping harvests. Generally, the marketing season closely follows harvest except for fall potatoes, when marketing from storage may extend through August of the following year. Thus, the marketing year for fall potatoes is from the start of harvest through August of the following year. 4 Potatoes 2019 Summary (September 2020) USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 2019 Potato Production Down 2 Percent for Comparable States All potato production in 2019 totaled 424 million cwt, down 2 percent from the 2018 crop for comparable States. Harvested area, at 937,300 acres, was down 1 percent from 2018 crop for comparable States. The average yield of 453 cwt per acre was down 1 cwt from the previous year for comparable States. The value of all potatoes sold in 2019, at $3.94 billion, increased 11 percent from the previous year for comparable States. The average price, at $9.94 per cwt, was up $1.16 from 2018 for comparable States. The quantity of potatoes sold from the 2019 crop totaled 395 million cwt, down 2 percent from 2018 for comparable States. Quantity sold accounted for 93 percent of 2019 production, unchanged from the previous year for comparable States. Growers from the 13 estimating States sold 276 million cwt of raw potatoes to processors from the 2019 crop. Table stock sales totaled 97.9 million cwt. Seed sales of 19.7 million cwt for 2019. Sales for livestock feed, at 1.53 million cwt for 2019. Shrinkage and loss was estimated at 25.0 million cwt for 2019, up slightly from 2018 for comparable states. Growers kept 4.61 million cwt for seed, livestock feed, and home use on their own farms, up 22 percent from 2018 for comparable States. United States potatoes used for processing totaled 283 million cwt, down 5 percent from 2018. Potatoes used for chips and shoestrings totaled 59.6 million cwt, down 5 percent from the previous year. Frozen french fries and other frozen products utilized 174 million cwt of raw potatoes, down 3 percent from 2018. Potatoes used for dehydrating totaled 41.6 million cwt, down 15 percent from 2018. Canning use, at 1.73 million cwt, was down 7 percent from the previous year. Other products made from potatoes utilized 6.03 million cwt of potatoes, a 9 percent increase from 2018. Beginning in 2019, seasonal breakouts of potato estimates were discontinued. Only all potato estimates will be published. Also estimates for Alaska, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Virginia were discontinued. Potatoes 2019 Summary (September 2020) 5 USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service Potato Utilization – Program States: 2017-2019 Crop year Utilization items 2017 2018 2019 (1,000 cwt) (1,000 cwt) (1,000 cwt) Sales Table stock ......................................................................................................................... 109,824 106,462 97,865 Processing .......................................................................................................................... 284,411 289,209 275,725 Other sales Livestock feed ..................................................................................................................... 1,913 697 1,528 Seed ................................................................................................................................... 25,224 24,079 19,677 Other Sales Total ................................................................................................................ 27,137 24,776 21,205 Total sales ......................................................................................................................... 421,372 420,447 394,795 Non-sales Seed used on farms where grown ....................................................................................... 3,526 3,491 3,995 Household use and used for feed on farms where grown .................................................... 884 556 613 Shrinkage and loss ............................................................................................................
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